Prince Charles and Princess Diana got engaged, it wasn't totally a gesture of love. Charles was under pressure from the royal family to settle down and Diana seemed liked a perfect match.
But before Diana was the perfect match that Charles was pressured to propose to, there was another "perfect match" Charles was pressured to propose to: His cousin (not a first cousin, but still, yeah...) Amanda Knatchbull.In Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult, royal historian and biographer Robert Lacey explains that Charles' great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten (aka "Uncle Dickie"), had pushed for him to marry Amanda, who was his cousin and Lord Mountbatten's granddaughter.
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